erinek's Full Review: Rachel Carson and Edward O. (AFT) Wilson - Silent ...
The book “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson serves as a warning about insecticides and their effect on the environment. The book dives into details of insecticides and how they affect insects as well as a variety of other animals that should not, but are, poisoned and even killed by the insecticides. It shows the disruption of nature’s delicately balanced circle of life and the chain reactions that can occur as a result of insecticides through many specific case examples. To sum it up, this book is pretty much very in-your-face about insecticides and how humans are ruining the environment through using them to exterminate pests.
On the bright side, after making humans seem like complete evil beings for killing the harmless, innocent mockingbirds of nature (I believe this is called an “allusion”), Rachel Carson does go on to on many occasions give alternate methods of pursuing a solution to the insect problems that bother the world.
Though Rachel Carson’s way of delivering the sad but true message of “Silent Spring” is a lot of the time overdramatic (in the sense that the book seems to almost have a classic hippy attitude, making its readers a little skeptical of the actual severity of the insecticide problem) and over-ranted about, it was no doubt filled with cold hard evidence of links to insecticides and other environmental problems that resulted from these insecticides. “Silent Spring” became one of the leading driving forces of the ban of DDT due to its persuasive and ever-provoking message. It wouldn’t be that far off to call this book a piece of satire, though this type of satire was for the actual good of society.
Overall, “Silent Spring” was an interesting read in the way that it was written long enough ago to be surprisingly knowledgeable of insecticides and its effects on pests, animals, and humans alike. I however if given the chance probably would have chosen a different book to have read in its place that could hold my attention span longer (chemistry books don’t seem to be my genre).
Science and Nature - Environmental Conservation an Juvenile / Children's Nonfiction - This is a rigorous presentation of the effects of pesticide use ...More at Barnes and Noble
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pe...More at HotBookSale
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